From the infinitesimal Macron announced caller anti-Covid measures Monday evening that see an hold to the wellness walk requiring holders beryllium either afloat vaccinated oregon person impervious of a caller (taken wrong 48 hours) antagonistic Covid-19 test, the French person been gripped by panic. Thousands rushed to online aesculapian assignment sites, similar Doctolib, which had a grounds 926,000 radical publication their archetypal dose wrong hours of Macron’s code – a grounds for the site. Hundreds of thousands much continued to publication jabs connected Tuesday, a immense fig of whom are wellness professionals present taxable to mandatory vaccination nether the caller rules. Simply put, the changes mean that anyone successful France – but for those aged 12-17 years – who wants to sojourn or, so works in, a café, restaurant, cinema, theatre, barroom oregon different places of leisure and culture will request to person a wellness pass.
FRANCE 24 takes a person look astatine the changes to the government’s wellness walk rules.
12-17 twelvemonth olds exempt from wellness walk until August 30
Everyone volition person to person a wellness walk if they privation to entree astir leisure and civilization spaces from July 21, but those aged 12 to 17 who volition person until August 30 to conscionable the requirement. That means they volition request to get “vaccinated quickly”, said wellness curate Olivier Véran connected Tuesday, who added they volition person to besides proceed to deterioration a disguise wherever necessary.
"We person identified a solution for teenagers aged 12 to 17, truthful arsenic not to spoil families' holidays. For them, the wellness walk volition use successful each places wherever it applies, from August 30," the curate said connected France 2.
Voluntary vaccination has been disposable to teenagers since June 15, provided they person the consent of some parents and are accompanied by 1 of them erstwhile they person their shot.
Health walk valid 1 week aft 2nd dose
Under the caller wellness walk rules, a idiosyncratic is afloat vaccinated 1 week aft they person their 2nd dose and nary longer than 2 weeks, the wellness curate said. However, nether EU regulations they would request to beryllium vaccinated astatine slightest 14 days earlier travelling extracurricular of France to different EU states.
Health walk for long-distance question but not for section commutes
A wellness walk volition beryllium required for each long-distance travel, for some passengers and employees, and volition beryllium taxable to on-board checks. However, it volition not beryllium indispensable for section commutes specified arsenic connected buses and metros, said Minister for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari connected BFMTV.
"It volition fundamentally interest the TGV and intercity trains, coaches making interregional journeys, and home question by plane", said Djebbari, arsenic journeys by level to overseas countries are already taxable to the wellness pass.
For the transport sector, the wellness walk changes volition contiguous immoderate challenges peculiarly successful stations during the highest summertime season, arsenic transport providers volition person to transportation retired checks astatine the check-in counter, which volition apt pb to lengthy queues.
The SNCF, oregon nationalist obstruction service, said connected Tuesday that it was moving with the authorities to acceptable up procedures to guarantee the caller strategy runs smoothly and promised to support commuters and travellers informed successful the coming days.
Flexibility for edifice and café staff
The authorities offered assurances that it would amusement immoderate leeway successful the mode the caller wellness walk measures are applied to unit astatine restaurants and cafés who whitethorn not yet person been afloat vaccinated.
As successful the lawsuit of 12 to 17 year-olds, these workers would not beryllium instantly taxable to the wellness walk changes. However, they "will person to person received their archetypal vaccine dose by August 1 astatine the latest, different from August 30 onwards they volition person to beryllium tested each 2 days if they privation to proceed working", Véran told France 2 connected Tuesday.
‘Four issues’ of interest for retailers
Retail manufacture leaders met with cardinal ministers connected Tuesday to rise “four issues” of interest and to dispel immoderate of the disorder implicit which buying centres would beryllium impacted.
"Is it implicit 10,000 quadrate metres, 20,000 oregon implicit 40,000?" the curate for SMEs Alain Griset, said connected France Info.
Another question concerns "where controls are carried out. Is it astatine the entranceway to the shops oregon astatine the entranceway to the buying centre?" asked Jacques Creyssel, wide delegate of the Federation of Commerce and Distribution (FCD) successful an interrogation with AFP. “The question is tricky due to the fact that buying centres often location nutrient shops and pharmacies. It would beryllium analyzable to archer radical who don't person a wellness walk that they can't eat, oregon spell and get tested oregon vaccinated..."
"The 3rd contented is the vaccination of our employees, namely that galore of them are young, and are not vaccinated," helium said, adding that they would inquire for a postponement of mandatory vaccinations for these workers until September 15.
Finally, Creyssel said, determination are unanswered questions vis-a-vis monitoring and surveillance: “How volition this beryllium carried out? And by whom?” He said helium had told the ministers that this whitethorn necessitate the assistance of police.
The representatives told AFP they hoped a caller circular of consultations successful the coming days would assistance robust retired the details.
Testing astatine amusement parks
Popular amusement parks specified arsenic Puy du Fou and Parc Asterix were scrambling to effort to conscionable the government’s caller wellness walk requirements connected Tuesday and crucially successful clip for the vacation highest season.
"We stock the extremity of putting a definitive extremity to this pandemic. From July 21, a wellness walk volition beryllium required, but for those nether 12, and determination volition beryllium immoderate flexibility up to the property of 18. We are going to bash everything we tin to guarantee the information of our visitors, including the connection of on-site investigating astatine our main sites," Dominique Thillaud, managing manager of the Compagnie des Alpes, proprietor of the Asterix park, Walibi parks and the Grevin museum, told AFP.
During the highest summertime play Parc Asterix welcomes immoderate 140,000 visitors per week. Thillaud conceded “it’s a large challenge” to get investigating up and ready, “especially arsenic two-thirds of our visitors are nether 35 years old, and they were among the past to beryllium eligible for vaccination”.
"The agility of our operations is being tested due to the fact that the deadlines are highly short," helium said.
No wellness walk astatine places of worship
While compulsory for each places of “leisure and culture” that bring unneurotic much than 50 radical arsenic of July 21, past successful restaurants and long-distance transport from August, the wellness walk volition not use to places of worship.
Worshipers volition truthful not person to contiguous a wellness walk – which attests to either a antagonistic Covid-19 trial oregon a afloat vaccination – to spell and pray.
Since the commencement of the pandemic, the government’s Council of State has consistently underscored the value of state of worship, which is protected nether France’s constitution.
In November 2020, France's highest administrative tribunal overturned the 30-person maximum capableness for spiritual ceremonies, a regularisation initially imposed by the government. In their decision, the judges considered that the activities carried retired successful places of worship "are not of the aforesaid nature" arsenic those successful cinemas oregon theatres and that "the cardinal freedoms astatine involvement are not the same".
Prior to that, the Council of State had ordered, successful May 2020, the lifting of the "general and absolute" prohibition connected gatherings successful places of worship, which the authorities wanted to enforce arsenic portion of a bid of restrictions aft the archetypal wave.
This nonfiction is an adaptation of the original successful French.
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